HP-UX 11i v3 March 2011 Release Notes (Edition 3)

11 Internationalization
This chapter describes changes internationalization functionality, including text fonts and converters
relating to various international languages.
Chinese GB18030 Locale Method
The Chinese GB18030 locale method provides conversion support between multibyte file code
and internal wide character process code for the Chinese zh_CN.gb18030 locale.
Summary of Change
The GB18030 locale method is revamped to improve its runtime performance to be comparable
with the other Chinese locale methods such as the one for the zh_CN.hp15CN locale.
Impact
You should see improved performance for applications running in the Chinese zh_CN.gb18030
locale.
Compatibility
There are no known compatibility issues.
Performance
You should see improved performance.
Documentation
There is no documentation other than this release note.
Obsolescence
Not applicable.
Iconv codeset conversion
The iconv codeset conversion command and APIs enable the conversion of character data from
one character set encoding to another.
Summary of Change
New iconv converters are added into HP-UX 11i v3 March 2011 release to support the conversion
of the eucJP2004 character set encoding to and from the SJIS2004 character set encoding, both
of which are encodings that support the Japanese JIS X 0213:2004 character set standard.
Impact
You will be able to convert eucJP2004 character data to/from SJIS2004 directly without going
through the intermediate Unicode encoding.
Compatibility
There are no known compatibility issues
Performance
There are no known performance issues.
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